Monday, January 6, 2014

Ben Sorir and the Public Social Workers, need them or not?

When I studied at , Nishmat  now in the Pat neighborhood, We spent a lot of time studying the subject of Ben Sorir and Morir.  This perek in the Gemara talks about the son who goes and takes too much food and drink from his father and mother. He eats and drinks like a glutton in his father's domains and is disrespectful to his parents.   He is taken to the Beit Din by the parents themselves because they know that they cannot deal with the improper behavior of their child.  Then the Gemara insists that there never was such a case.  Why?  Because there are many rules that pertain to the case.  The parents have to look and sound alike.  They have to be the same height and have the same voice. The boy has to be exactly between the age of a child and an adult. he cannot be a child and he cannot be an adult.  This is a one day window that is very difficult to define. The parents have to harden their hearts against their son.  This also never happens.    Never was there a case of Ben Sorir and Morir.  Why do we study it?  So we as parents can learn from the mistakes of others in a good way, not the way the Misrad HaRevacha does.  Read on for more details!

Parents have the responsibility and the honor to bring up their children, not the government. All the authority has to rest with the parents!

The Misrad of Revacha,  משרד הרווחה (why they came up with that name I'll never know,)  I just looked it up in the online dictionary http://www.morfix.co.il/רווחה says that it is the office of Welfare, Well being and comfort!

NOT!

You should only go to the Government Social Workers when you are very poor, have no money, no children and nothing to lose.  Then they can be helpful to you and give you resources.  They are very nice to cancer patients, and the elderly.

If you have a spot of trouble with your children in school however stay away from them with all your might. They have mysterious powers and can take away your children at their own discretion. They write notes about you and your kids, that you have no access to and cannot change or even argue.  Their word is much better than yours. The only way to get away from them is to pray that they make a mistake and then you can sue them in small claims court. It will cost you a lot of money however to do this.

 To keep your kids, you need to make sure that your children go to school on time, wear clean clothes, do their homework, in short not to call attention to themselves in a bad way.  

The other thing that you must do in order to keep your kids is to train them not to talk to the school psychologists!  These people are also out to get you and your kids.  I have been in contact people that say that the school psychologists take innocent comments that children say and twist their innocent statements  to ugly and disgusting comments about how they hate their parents.  They also have the right to video tape your kid when they talk to them in school and turn over evidence to the police without your knowledge.  So train you children to say to the social workers, counselors and psychologists from the school not to talk to them. "I don't want to talk:" should be the mantra to keep you and your children safe.

We as responsible parents need to know the exact rules that the social services go by and it should be published in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian for everyone to know and understand how and why the public social workers can and can not take children away from their parents.

 The law needs to be changed, so that parents are notified first of questionable behavior and language of children in the school and not turned over first to the police.  If there is a problem in school the parents are the first place to take care of the problem.  The police should be used as a last resort when all other intervention has failed.  The people who are in the best position to know when all intervention has failed is not the school but the parents.  Parents are the ultimate authority in dealing with their children and should be treated with the respect that is accorded to them in Jewish law.


Please take this advice in this blog post seriously!  It could happen to you!

Rachael Alice
http://lifecoachjerusalem.weebly.com/ For a private consultation please contact me on the website.
I can help you to keep your kids!

  

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